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charity: water provides clean water to communities in developing countries. Scott launched charity: water in 2006 after raising $15,000 from his fr...
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 32:00
Did you know that Canadian canola farmer, Percy Schmeiser, was sued by Monsanto when his farm was contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO canola seed? Joi...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview with Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka about his latest book, Car Wars. The resurgence of the electric car in...
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- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 23:50
- Purchases: 1
Innovations usually arise locally. If conditions are right, they spread globally. That story is playing out around the world today. In India, human...
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 28:30
You know that sick feeling when you look at a smokestack belching noxious gases into the air? Well, what if you knew that the gas waste coming from...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 29:40
- Purchases: 4
The RW comes home to Vancouver. Is this ship iconic in the city where Greenpeace began?
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- Added: Mar 13, 2016
- Length: 08:47
- Purchases: 1
Forty years ago when a logging road was blasted deep into the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the outside world discovered the Surui people. Contact...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 28:30
A popular character on a Spanish-language soap opera resonates so deeply with viewers that they become empowered and educated about reproductive he...
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- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
Alberta citizen/researcher Jessica Ernst takes on Big Frac
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 29:52
Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
A handful of global business leaders are blazing trails to a biologically based “eco-nomics.” They are fundamentally recalculating core assumptions...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs, and educato...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Bathing suits modeled on sharkskin that win the Olympics. Low-energy display screen based on peacock feathers. Nature has done everything human soc...
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 28:30
The foods we put on our plates have ripple effects way beyond our personal health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Master green chemists and educators John Warner and Amy Cannon say the radical growth of green chemistry is showing we can have good chemistry with...
- Added: Oct 24, 2014
- Length: 28:30
Nobody hitchhikes anymore. Back in the 1980s getting a ride with a stranger became decidedly un-trendy. Rugged individualism was in and ridesharing...
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 02:00
By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
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- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
